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| − | It is recommended to focus on the following combat anomalies for the best ISK/h due to high number of battleships or the possibility to [[Combat_sites#Expeditions|escalate]] to lucrative DED-rated sites: | + | It is recommended to focus on the following null-sec combat anomalies for the best ISK/h due to high number of battleships or the possibility to [[Combat_sites#Expeditions|escalate]] to lucrative DED-rated sites: |
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Rogue drone combat sites are generally not worth running compared to other combat sites or belt-ratting. | Rogue drone combat sites are generally not worth running compared to other combat sites or belt-ratting. | ||
| − | Unrated combat sites, DED combat sites and Expeditions are generally more challenging and need preparations or to be done in a group, but also offer higher rewards. It is important to know that | + | Unrated combat sites, DED combat sites, and Expeditions are generally more challenging and need preparations or to be done in a group, but also offer higher rewards. It is important to know that while higher classes of combat anomalies mean harder combat, the difficulty of Unrated Complexes, DED Complexes or Expeditions does not 100% correlate with their class. |
=== Tips === | === Tips === | ||
Revision as of 12:25, 13 March 2024
Ratting is the hunting and killing of NPC pirates, which can appear in asteroid belts and cosmic anomalies, and also near to gates in nullsec space. Players receive bounty payments for killing rats. The amount of the bounty is based on the difficulty of killing the rat.
Since combat sites can be found by probing, ratting shares a small overlap with exploration, and ratters can benefit greatly by having a ship capable of scanning down signatures.
Belt Ratting
Rare Spawns
Hauler Spawns
NPC hauler ships can occaisonally spawn in belts. They can carry up to 100M ISK worth of ores. Note that these can be easily confused with mining fleet haulers (see below), which do not carry any ore.
Mining Fleet
- Main article: NPC Mining Operations
Local NPC rats will occasionally send out mining fleets to support their economy. These fleets can be identified from normal rats with "♦" in front of their name. They can be attacked and killed, primarily for the loot. If attacked, a response fleet will warp in, designed to tackle you, dampen your sensors, heal the damage you deal, and kill you, while the mining fleet warps off to a deadspace safe (which can be scanned down with combat probes). Killing the initial mining fleet can reward Faction Module BPCs, Faction Drone BPCs, and certain Faction skins. The response fleet rewards no loot.
Commander Spawns
- Main article: NPC naming conventions
Commander ships inflict more damage and have better range than other rats of a similar class. Commanders tend to be rare spawns, and can also carry Faction Items as loot.
Commander ships are always prefixed with the following titles:
- Domination Angel Cartel
- Dark Blood Raider
- Dread Guristas
- True Sansha's Nation
- Shadow Serpentis
- Sentient Rogue Drone
Capital Spawns
Rarely, a capital ship will spawn. They will be named one of three ways, and carry the following bounties:
- <Faction> Dreadnought/Carrier - 60,000,000 ISK
- <Commander title> <Faction> Dreadnought/Carrier - 120,000,000 ISK
- <Commander title> <Faction> Titan/Supercarrier - 240,000,000 ISK
If you encounter a capital spawn, you should warp out immediately! These ships are very powerful and quickly dispose of a regular ratting ship. Grab some friends to go kill it instead.
Fits to combat capital spawns must contain multiple scams, or they will warp away. Capital spawns also come with number of regular cruisers as a screening fleet, and should be dealt with before the capital spawn proper.
It is recommended to salvage the capital wrecks.
Ratting in Combat Sites
- Main article: Guide to combat sites
- Main article: Combat sites
Combat sites are randomly spawned locations inside a system where pilots can fight NPCs. These sites can be divided into anomalies, signatures, escalations and static complexes.
- Cosmic anomalies:
- Visible in probe window without scanner
- The easiest of the bunch
- Low chance to either spawn Shadow Serpentis faction rats or Dreadnought capital rats (like in belts)
- Can escalate into DED sites or Expeditions
- Cosmic signatures:
- Can either be gotten as an escalation from clearing an combat anomaly, or be found in system (where it needs to be scanned down with probes)
- Unrated Complexes have moderate chances for faction spawn and low chance to escalate into a new combat site
- DED combat sites have guaranteed faction spawns that can drop DED modules and can under some circumstances escalate into a new DED site
- Expeditions:
- Escalates from anomalies and unrated signatures
- And as such cannot be found, but must be gotten from other combat sites
- They usually consist of many parts, and expeditions can escalation into new expeditions in new systems
The system security (not true-sec) determines the level of the sites that spawn, while the region determines what pirate faction sites spawn.
It is recommended to focus on the following null-sec combat anomalies for the best ISK/h due to high number of battleships or the possibility to escalate to lucrative DED-rated sites:
- <Faction> Forsaken Rally Point
- <Faction> Forsaken Hub
- <Faction> Haven
- <Faction> Sanctum
Rogue drone combat sites are generally not worth running compared to other combat sites or belt-ratting.
Unrated combat sites, DED combat sites, and Expeditions are generally more challenging and need preparations or to be done in a group, but also offer higher rewards. It is important to know that while higher classes of combat anomalies mean harder combat, the difficulty of Unrated Complexes, DED Complexes or Expeditions does not 100% correlate with their class.
Tips
Combat anomalies consist of one ungated pocket, with the first wave of rats already present and more spawning in waves when previous ships get destroyed. To avoid being overrun, you should look up the wave trigger, and kill the trigger ship last.
Once you enter a combat anomaly, burn away from the warp-in and make sure that you don't fly directly towards the rats, as this makes you far to easy to kill. Once you have gained some distance from the warp-in, drop down a Mobile Tractor Unit (MTU) and orbit it at about 20 km. The reason to get away from the warp-in, is so you aren't too close to it if hostile players warps to it. The MTU is not a must, but it makes looting and potential salvaging far easier. Just remember to bookmark it in case you have to warp off.
Combat signatures and Expeditions are far more varied, and it is therefore harder to provide general advice. They usually consists of multiple gated deadspace pockets. This means that hostile players cannot warp directly to you, but have to scan you down with combat probes and take the gates to reach you. This makes you far harder to catch while running the site.
The higher difficulty of combat sites means that you want better ships than for regular belt ratting. Consider flying more advanced ships such as the Gila or Ishtar.
Building for target NPCs
Just like player ships, NPCs have different resistances for different damage types. However, NPCs tend to ignore the native resistance conventions of shields and armor, and instead have damage resistances which are specific to their faction. If you are running missions or ratting, it is helpful to know towards which damage the NPCs are weak and what damage they deal. This way you can can fit your ship accordingly and maximize your effectiveness against your chosen targets. You can see the resistances and damage types dealt in the attribute tab of an NPC if you open its info window.
In general, all NPCs from a certain faction have similar damage profiles, making them much more predictable than player ships. Additionally, each faction only uses particular types of electronic warfare; this is also noted in the table below. Ship fitting tools like PYFA can simulate combat against rats of different factions, giving you even more fine-grained control over your fit. Please note that a few special NPCs don't follow the pattern of their faction.
| Faction | Weaknesses | Damage types dealt | Electronic Warfare |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angel Cartel | Explosive / Kinetic | Explosive (62%) / Kinetic (22%) | Target Painters |
| Blood Raiders | EM / Thermal | EM (50%) / Thermal (48%) | Energy Neutralizers, Tracking Disruptors |
| Guristas Pirates | Kinetic / Thermal | Kinetic (79%) / Thermal (18%) | ECM |
| Mordu's Legion | Kinetic / EM [1] | Kinetic (70%) / Thermal (30%) | |
| Rogue Drones | EM/Thermal | (varies) [2] | |
| Sansha's Nation (missions / anomalies) |
EM / Thermal | EM (53%) / Thermal (47%) | Tracking Disruptors |
| Serpentis | Kinetic / Thermal | Thermal (55%) / Kinetic (45%) | Sensor Dampeners |
| CONCORD [3] | Kinetic / Thermal | (Omni) [4]" | |
| Equilibrium of Mankind | Kinetic[5] | Kinetic (74%) / Thermal (26%) | |
| Khanid Kingdom | EM / Thermal | Thermal / EM | |
| Mercenaries | Kinetic / Thermal | Kinetic / Thermal | |
| Sleepers | (Omni) [4] | (Omni) [4] | Energy Neutralizers |
| Sansha's Nation (incursions) |
(Omni) [4] | (Omni) [4] | (all) |
| Triglavian Collective (abyss) |
Explosive / Thermal [6] | Thermal (60%) / Explosive (40%) | (all except ECM) |
| Triglavian Collective (invasions) |
Explosive / Thermal | (Omni) [4] | (all except ECM) |
| Amarr Empire | EM / Thermal | EM (47%) / Thermal (42%) | Energy Neutralizers, Tracking Disruptors |
| Caldari State | Kinetic / Thermal | Kinetic (51%) / Thermal (48%) | ECM |
| Gallente Federation | Kinetic / Thermal | Kinetic (60%) / Thermal (39%) | Sensor Dampeners |
| Minmatar Republic | Explosive / Kinetic | Explosive (50%) / Kinetic (31%) | Target Painters |
| Amarr Empire (EDENCOM) | Thermal / EM | EM (58%) / Thermal (42%) | Energy Neutralizers, Tracking Disruptors |
| Caldari State (EDENCOM) | EM / Explosive | EM (51%) / Explosive (44%) | ECM |
| Gallente Federation (EDENCOM) | EM / Explosive | Kinetic (58%) / Thermal (42%) | Sensor Dampeners |
| Minmatar Republic (EDENCOM) | Kinetic / Explosive | (Omni) [4] | Target Painters |
| Amarr Empire (Homefronts) | Thermal / EM | EM (62.5%) / Thermal (37.5%) | Energy Neutralizers, Tracking Disruptors |
| Caldari State (Homefronts) | EM / Explosive | Kinetic (62.5%) / Thermal (37.5%) | ECM |
| Gallente Federation (Homefronts) | EM / Explosive | Kinetic (62.5%) / Thermal (37.5%) | Sensor Dampeners |
| Minmatar Republic (Homefronts) | Kinetic / Explosive | Explosive (62.5%) / Kinetic (37.5%) | Target Painters |
| Angel Cartel (Homefronts) | Explosive / Kinetic | Explosive (62.5%) / Kinetic (37.5%) | Target Painters |
| Blood Raiders (Homefronts) | EM / Thermal | EM (62.5%) / Thermal (37.5%) | Energy Neutralizers, ECM |
| Guristas Pirates (Homefronts) | Kinetic / Thermal | Kinetic (62.5%) / Thermal (37.5%) | ECM |
| Ashes of Turnur (Homefronts) | Explosive / Kinetic | Thermal (62.5%) / EM (37.5%) | ECM |
| Disciples of Purity (Homefronts) | EM / Kinetic | Thermal 62.5% / Explosive 37.5% | ECM |
| Gallente Primacy (Homefronts) | Thermal / Kinetic | Explosive (62.5%) / EM (37.5%) | Energy Neutralizers, ECM |
| United Champions of Freedom (Homefronts) | Thermal / Kinetic | Explosive (62.5%) / EM (37.5%) | ECM |
| Triglavian Collective (Homefronts) | Explosive / Thermal | Thermal (62.5%) / Explosive (37.5%) | (all except ECM) |
- ^ Kinetic damage is best, EM and thermal are both ~75% as effective as kinetic but EM is better against shields and Mordu's ships have active shields so it is better overall. EMP is best projectiles to use.
- ^ Rogue Drones have a tendency to vary wildly in what damage type they deal and are vulnerable to. Low-level missions seem to lean towards EM/Thermal while high-level missions lean towards Explosive/Kinetic. Consult mission reports about the specific mission or exploration site before undocking.
- ^ This refers to CONCORD enemies found in certain missions (particularly in low- and null-sec). CONCORD ships patrolling high-sec are invincible, so the damage types they do is not relevant.
- ^ a b c d e f g "(Omni)" means that the ships do all damage types equally, or are equally vulnerable to all damage types.
- ^ Em/Th approx 75% as effective as kinetic. Explosive around 60% compared to kinetic. EMP the best projectile ammo
- ^ Unless in an Electrical or Exotic filament, in which case use EM or Kinetic respectively
